The 43rd season premiere of “Saturday Night Live,” hosted by Ryan Gosling and musical guest Jay-Z, generated the show’s second most-watched season opener in seven years, with 7.02 million viewers and 1.91 million adults 18-49, according to “fast official” “live plus same day” results.

Over that seven-year span, the only bigger result for an “SNL” season debut came with last year’s opener, hosted by Margot Robbie and featuring musical guest The Weeknd, as well as the first appearance of Alec Baldwin as then-Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump (8.297 million viewers overall, 2.34 rating in adults 18-49). Last year’s premiere was at that time the show’s most-watched in eight years and highest-rated in 18-49 in three years.

For the entire week of September 25-October 1, 2017 in Total Day (8 p.m. to 5:59 a.m.), Adult Swim is down 4 percent in viewership (0.771 million vs. 0.801 million) and down 3 percent among Adults 18-49 (490,000 vs. 503.000) from one week earlier; the network is also down 15 percent in viewership (0.771 million vs. 0.910 million) and down 8 percent among Adults 18-49 (490,000 vs. 533,000) from the same week one year ago (September 26-October 2, 2016). (http://programminginsider.com/?p=19713)